Go World News

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Big komoku

Have you heard? Sugiuchi Kazuko actually won a game. To remind, she’s 96 years old, born March 6, 1927 (became pro in 1942). Not that opponent was amazingly young at 50 years old.

Meanwhile on the younger side Ueno Risa (16yo) challenged Nakamura Sumire (she’s now 14yo, birthday is 2nd March).

And on the stronger side Ueno Asami played Iyama Yuta. Iyama Yuta doesn’t seem to be giving out wins for nothing.

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:cry:

https://www.seattlego.org/2023/07/04/sgc-temporarily-closed/

SGC must close until it finds a temporary location to rent. Our landlord says they are defaulting on their loan, and we need to leave the premises by 27 JUL. SGC will operate normally through 18 JUL in its current location. We hope to find a new temporary location soon and resume normal programs. Until we rent a temporary location for SGC, we are looking for a location to host Tue evenings, for example, a restaurant or coffee shop that is closed on Tue. Please email manager@seattlego.org with any suggestions or questions.

This news article has more details:

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/the-seattle-go-center-looks-for-new-home-after-closing-u-district-site/

The closure comes after Champion Real Estate Company purchased the building from the Nihon Ki-in, the former Japanese owners of the Go Center, last June for $7.3 million. An August 2020 design proposal shows plans to construct “Victory at the U,” a high-rise student housing building, on the lot. The proposal would allow the Go Center to occupy the second level of the building.

“The original intent for the site included a new building with a space for which the Go Center would occupy under a 99-year lease,” said Garrett Champion, executive vice president of Champion Real Estate Co. “However, due to market conditions we are reevaluating the use of the site.”

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AKA “We promised the building would still be used for Go when we bought it but now that it’s ours we decided we want to milk it for as much money as possible”

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It sounds unfair for go players, and it is indeed sad, however if the following is true

then perhaps it’s not about “milking for as much money as possible” but “avoid bankruptcy”.

AKA “We’re too greedy to just make a decent profit, we’re terminally conditioned to chase all profit”.

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I dunno if there is 1 go building still not sold.

Makes me pretty sad, that is so against the dreams and contribution of Iwamoto Kaoru.

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The MDR (one of the 6 or so local German TV stations) published a piece about the EGC. It’s short, but it’s something.

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Is it greedy for a random bank to not go out of their way to support a random Go club it has no connection to?

It sounds like Nihon Ki-in sold the building with the restriction that SGC could keep using it, but they failed to impose the restriction on the mortgage holder. So when the purchaser decided to dump the property, SGC was out of luck. Probably there’s more to the story, but it seems like a strange oversight to make if they actually cared.

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Nihon-kiin had a serious financial problem at its branch in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil.

No, but it is greedy of banks and other financial institutions to habitually hide behind “market conditions” to be the greediest they can possibly be.

And, “market conditions” always apply to the banks and never to their customers, funny that.

Fun fact, kinda related: I don’t know if y’all remember the train disaster a few months ago in Greece. A law passed that victims of the tragedy and their families would have loans forgiven. Some funds, that hide behind bank laws applying to them when it suits them, came out and said “technically, we’re not banks, so the law doesn’t apply to us, pay up!”.

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It looks like this game of Shin Jinseo against Lee Changho played yesterday ended up void by triple ko

Game:

Awesome Baduk review:

I got the game from kifu depot and uploaded it to OGS, but I don’t think the ai understands the position.

Maybe that’s not surprising if there’s random situations where the OGS ai recently has been recommending just ignoring the ko rule and recapturing :slight_smile:

But maybe that’s just a demo board problem

(Easy - blue move, just ignore the ko rule)

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And there are still people claiming AI can’t think out of the box!

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Triple ko in the Pandanet B league, Croatia vs Netherlands

This looks more tricky than a plain triple ko. See J89 L/D example 8, and self-contained Moonshine life (as well as real Triple ko) at senseis.

Here the position is still somewhat open since neither player is in atari and both can in theory consider tenuki. In a triple ko tenuki would mean immediate capture, and in a fully developed local moonshine life B could not do more than one double ko flip, and only W could press the cycle with perpetual atari option.

In similar half-formed moonshine shapes it also often matters whether the side without the eye have enough liberties outside to be able to fill an internal ko and play a ko fight with the rest. This in theory seems possible here - and would be enough reason for W to keep fighting for the outside ko to prevent that B line - but since W has a local ko threat within the internal eye, that B threat is less important. So it seems W could have won (reminds me this just less clear).

That seems to make sense, allow black to make it a direct ko and use a local ko threat and ignore anything else.

I think it was still counted as a jigo in this case because the players kept repeating.

Yes, just like in the linked Chinese example (regardless if that is strategically good play or not).

I thought I saw a Go News related thread somewhere so I tried finding one but I couldn’t so I created a new thread. Let me know if this is not okay.

Will try to share some big Go News as regularly as I can, mainly related to the Professional Go scene. If you have some other interesting Go-related news feel free to share too.

In Game 6 of the Meijin Title Match against Shibano Toramaru (24) played on 30th and 31st October, Ichiriki Ryo (27) won by 6.5 points after 236 moves. With that, he achieved a score of 4-2, allowing him to attain the Meijin Title for the first time. He lost to Iyama Yuta by 3-4 when he challenged him 3 years ago for the Meijin Title.

Ichiriki Ryo currently also holds the Kisei, Tengen and Honinbo titles, so Meijin is his fourth concurrent title. He is also the 3rd player in history after Cho Chikun and Iyama Yuta to obtain the big 3 titles (Kisei, Meijin and Honinbo) concurrently.

Coincidentally, Iyama Yuta currently holds the other half of the major titles (Oza, Gosei, Judan). It will be interesting to see if Ichiriki can attain all seven titles concurrently like Iyama did.

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Ichiriki didn’t obtain Oza challenger this year, so he will have to wait for a whole year for another round of Oza challenge. I’d say it’s going to be very challenging with Shibano always on his back.

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